873. St. James’s Cake

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849

Source: The Modern Housewife
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (9)

one pound of very fresh butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
one pound powdered sugar ↝ Sugars, powdered [Sweets]
ten eggs ↝ Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole [Dairy and Egg Products]
a pound and a quarter of flour ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
blanch and cut in slices two ounces of pistachios ↝ Nuts, pistachio nuts, raw [Nut and Seed Products]
two ditto of green preserved angelica
two liqueur glasses of noyeau
two drops of essence of vanilla
whip a gill and a half of cream till very thick ↝ Cream, whipped [Cream cheese, sour cream, whipped cream]

Instructions (5)

Put one pound of very fresh butter in a good-sized kitchen basin, and with the right hand work it up well till it forms quite a white cream.
then add one pound powdered sugar, mix well, add ten eggs by degrees.
put to dry a pound and a quarter of flour, which mix as lightly as possible with it.
blanch and cut in slices two ounces of pistachios, two ditto of green preserved angelica, add two liqueur glasses of noyeau, two drops of essence of vanilla.
whip a gill and a half of cream till very thick, mix lightly with a wooden spoon.

Original Text · last edited 12 days ago

873. St. James’s Cake.—Put one pound of very fresh butter in a good-sized kitchen basin, and with the right hand work it up well till it forms quite a white cream; then add one pound powdered sugar, mix well, add ten eggs by degrees; put to dry a pound and a quarter of flour, which mix as lightly as possible with it; blanch and cut in slices two ounces of pistachios, two ditto of green preserved angelica, add two liqueur glasses of noyeau, two drops of essence of vanilla; whip a gill and a half of cream till very thick, mix lightly with a wooden spoon.

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